"I hit the ball right now on this golf course almost as far as I did when I was winning and I'm not even going to be remotely close to contention."

- Jack Nicklaus complaining about increasingly good golf equipment which is making some courses too short to be testing.

"Barrera must be prepared mentally for being hit harder than he ever thought possible. Hamed's power has the effect of a shock or electric current passing through your body."

- Wayne McCullough graphically illustrates why Hamed is rated the world's top featherweight boxer.

"They are whores for one week a year and then they spend the other 51 weeks pretending they are not whores."

- An un-named former US Masters Champion on the merchandising feeding frenzy which takes place at Augusta each year.